The tower at Rouffiac
The weather had changed quite suddenly after a sunny morning in Le-Puy.
A white grey sky threatened a passive sort of rain as I went deeper into the misty wilds of the Cantal.
The tower at Roffiac is only a half round and it sits unassumingly at the side of the road. Had it been a full round tower, I probably wouldn't have stopped. What appeared to be "missing" was more interesting than what was present.
I wish now that I had read the signs.
Or maybe I had and have forgotten what they said.
So often in life we either misread or forget the signs and then wonder why we end up in
awkward and uncomfortable predicaments.
Even my 24-7 guru, Wikipedia, had little to offer apart from the absolute basics.
So now I know Roffiac has 27 people per square km.
My mostly rural county, Devon, has 169 people per square km which is slightly more than Andorra's 167 and enormously less than Macao SAR China which has 19,885 people per square km.
Fortunately, or not, depending on how you look at it, Macao has only 31.3 km.
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| Very cute Jesus with a curiously wonky hand and leg. The cross also includes a serpent, a sheep, two small heads and something which reminds me of Sheelanagig, the sculpture, (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/s/sheela-na-gig.aspx) not Sheelanagig, the band from Bristol, who are also very good. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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